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TweetDeck is a social media dashboard application for management of Twitter and Facebook accounts. Like other Twitter applications it interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send and receive tweets and view profiles. It is the most popular Twitter application with a 23% market share as of June 2009, following only the official Twitter website with 45.7% share for posting new status updates. It is compatible with several operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Chrome OS, Linux, and FreeBSD. An iPhone version was released on June 19, 2009 and an iPad version was released in May 2010 as well. An Android version was made available in October 2010 after a public beta period.

TweetDeck was originally developed by Iain Dodsworth, until May 25, 2011, when TweetDeck was acquired by Twitter with a rumored $40 – $50 million purchase price including both cash and Twitter stock. Twitter then released a new version of the application branded "TweetDeck by Twitter" on...

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Why is Twitter so interested in acquiring TweetDeck? To answer that question, one has to dig deeper into Twitter's complicated relationship with "frenemy" UberMedia. The Wall Street Journal published a story Monday claiming that Twitter is in talks t...

Twitter is in talks to purchase TweetDeck Inc. for $50 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. TweetDeck is one of the most popular third-party Twitter clients, available in desktop, iPad, iPhone and Android versions. It displays your Twitter ...

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Only 58% of tweets come from official Twitter clients, according to new data from Sysomos, shedding some light on Twitter platform chief Ryan Sarver's assertion last week that "90% of all active Twitter users use official Twitter apps on a monthly ba...

TweetDeck has announced a major new version of its iOS app, due to be released in the "next couple of weeks." The new version has been rewritten from scratch and includes a redesign (the folks at TweetDeck claim the app will shine with the iPhone's r...

UberMedia, a collection of third-party Twitter tools that includes TweetDeck, PostUp, UberTwitter, Echofon and others, has raised $17.5 million in funding from Accel Partners, Index Ventures and Steve Case's Revolution Ventures. The funding, first re...

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As part of the ongoing Mashable Awards, we're taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is "Best Social Media Service for Small Business." Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the Gala in Las Vegas! Sponsorships ar...

As part of the ongoing Mashable Awards, we're taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is "Best Social Media Management Tool." Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the Gala in Las Vegas! Sponsorships are available...

After several months in beta, TweetDeck for Android has just been officially released. TweetDeck 1.0 is now available in the Android Market (Android users can click this link from their device). TweetDeck for Android supports not only Twitter, but al...

"Twitter.com has always been the most popular Twitter client. 78% of active users have used it in the last 30 days," said Twitter CEO Evan Williams in a tweet earlier today. While that stat has been public knowledge for nearly two weeks now, it carri...

Starting this Thursday, popular social media management tool TweetDeck will be available as an Android app. The company is opening its beta program in the morning, and we were lucky enough to get our hands on a copy tonight. We've tried other Android...

Popular desktop and mobile Twitter client developer TweetDeck is announcing a bevy of self-congratulating stats today, including the fact that its desktop application has been downloaded more than 15 million times. TweetDeck boasts that this impressi...

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As we noted yesterday, the launch of the new Google Buzz API means that applications like TweetDeck, Seesmic, Plancast and Boxee can now integrate directly with Google Buzz. Seesmic Desktop released its first version with Google Buzz support yesterda...

Interest in Google Buzz has been dwindling ever since its initial release, but that could soon change. Today Google announced that a number of notable web and desktop applications -- like TweetDeck, Seesmic, Plancast and Boxee -- have integrated Goog...

Popular Twitter client TweetDeck announced today its plans to make TweetDeck into a browser-based mobile application that can run on a variety of devices. By focusing on building an application for the mobile browser -- rather than native platforms -...

On Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, Jimmy asked guest Alyssa Milano to explain Twitter and hashtags to him. In the video below, Alyssa explains that she tweets 12 to 22 times per day, that she likes to imagine Jimmy Kimmel naked when she's nervous and t...

Come iPad launch day, you'll certainly have your pick of Twitter iPad apps. Now you can add popular desktop and iPhone app TweetDeck to that mix. While you can't use it until tomorrow morning, TweetDeck for iPad is available now in the App Store and ...

All right Tweetdeck fans, rev up your engines and prepare to update to Tweetdeck 0.33, which adds a slew of new features, better API management and more in-Tweetdeck media previews. We could list all the new features in Tweetdeck 0.33, but the compan...

The Tweetdeck dev team has been busy over the holidays, bringing us version 1.3 of the iPhone application. It consists mostly of minor improvements, but there's one cool feature: geotagging and inline maps in the tweet detail screen. Of course, to ha...

Sky News — a 24-hour UK news site owned by News Corp. — is changing up their entire newsroom to focus more on Twitter. The organization is installing Tweetdeck on staff computers to stimulate news gathering via social media, according to reports from...

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One of the many plans the folks at TweetDeck have for their desktop and mobile Twitter clients now includes launching themed versions of film clients. TweetDeck kicked off the series with a Warner Brothers partnership for the studio's upcoming film v...

In the past few weeks, we’ve seen lots of Twitter applications push out upgrades in an effort to keep pace with Twitter’s newest capabilities, like native retweets, geolocation, and Twitter Lists. Noticeably absent from the onslaught has been TweetDe...

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Among Twitter desktop apps, Seesmic and TweetDeck are the two biggest, built using Adobe AIR, which allows them to work on multiple operating systems. However, AIR has limitations, since it essentially helps port rich Internet applications onto the d...

Back in June, popular Twitter desktop app TweetDeck made a splash when it launched its iPhone app. It was significant, as it was the first Twitter iPhone app to integrate with a desktop version and it provided a very real challenger to the Tweetie iP...

We've had a number of close calls here during our Web Faceoff series, but this wasn't one of them. This week we pitted TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop against each other in a bar room brawl for favorite Twitter client. Now, the results are in. Whereas ...

It's time to kick off this week's Faceoff challenge, wherein we pit two web services or software packages against each other in a knock-down, drag-out fight. Last week, Windows 7 went the distance to narrowly defeat Apple's OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard op...

TweetDeck is one of the most popular Twitter clients, and with the bevy of features, support for multiple accounts and services -- plus groups -- TweetDeck has defined itself as a solid cross-platform Twitter client for the power user. Today, TweetDe...

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TweetDeck is fast becoming the de facto accessory for social media fanatics. The Twitter desktop application is certainly seeing formidable competition, mainly from the likes of Seesmic, or web-based alternatives, but their ultimate mission is to bec...

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